Downloads: Here

• fix: broken YouTube Music recommendations (thanks to @omaru-ok for report).

This release just counts a single-patch on top of existing v0.2.6. I'm still working on next major release with actual new features & fixes to some crucial issues. Progress on this may be found at #309.

Downloads: Here

Like we do, minor releases after a major release to fix the broken things. There weren't much broken things this time. So, likely we won't need another one. See you at the next major one.

• feat: lyrics size configuration from the settings (@alexmercerind).
• feat: shuffle buttons on AlbumScreen, ArtistScreen & PlaylistScreen (@alexmercerind).
• perf: improve performance of ModernNowPlayingScreen especially when opening the "Coming Up" list (@alexmercerind).
• perf: improve animation performance when navigating through albums, playlists or artists. No jitter can be observed now (@alexmercerind).
• perf: discord rpc fallback to track artists tag, if album artist is not found (@alexmercerind).
• feat: warn if an attempt is made to close the app in the middle of indexing (@alexmercerind).
• fix: windows 7 frame on resize (@alexmercerind).
• fix: user loaded images not showing inside app upon fresh start (@alexmercerind).
• feat: update notifier (@alexmercerind).
• intl: update portuguese translations (@maisondasilva).

Download links are below.

This release is being made after a really long time. I've largely worked on the missing features, made implementation a whole lot safer, added some new functionalities that set a standard for us & separate us from the crowd. The good ol' modern, consistent & cohesive Material Design that we follow & perfect animations still make us stand out. I'm still determined to make this experience even better in future updates & this update brings a lot of it to reality.

• Time-synced lyrics & visuals during music playback.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28951144/173223285-eaafff0b-a75e-4cf9-b861-fcdaf05de333.mp4

• In-app hyperlinks for local music collection. Now everywhere a album's name or artist's name is present in the UI, you can just click it to reach it quickly. This only works for your local music library.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28951144/178319992-3f248643-6873-4b82-8342-5fbff432ca3d.mp4

• Pitch shifting.

• Improved Discord RPC with album art & remaining time.

Local Music	Online Music

• Details editor screen.

• YouTube playlist importing.

• Improved color generation from artwork.

Before v0.2.5 (very-less contrast between primary & accent color)	v0.2.5 (better looking color-palette & visibility)

• Added option to show a local music directly in File Explorer.

• Added ability to disable Discord RPC.
• Patches to libmpv bindings to fix a number of media playback related issues.
• Refactored indexing to use HashSets. Now indexing is way faster, safer & efficient.
• Improved caching mechanism inside the application to be more safe to corruptions, power-cuts or other interruptions.
• Added "Add to now playing" button on YouTube songs.
• Add "copy-link" & "open-in-browser" buttons right at the NowPlayingBar for quicker access.
• Other performance improvements & UI tweaks to make things more pleasant to use.
• Now the application warns if any of the folders you added to your library are inaccessible.

I want to especially thank:

• @kellerkolle for being my only Patreon for this project, thanks a lot for your trust & support. Hope you like this update.
• @naturallymitchell for the large donation, hope you enjoy this update & my internal source-code & other projects too.
• @yehudakremer for awesome contributions earlier to the project & the donation.
• @DomingoMG for the donation. Hope you are finding my internal source-code & packages useful.
• @stonega for becoming my first GitHub sponsor. Thankyou!
• @mytja for being an awesome person & housekeeping the project!
• People in Harmonoid's Discord server for staying with me.

Notes:

1. This update will cause one-time-only re-indexing in your music collection. It is important because re-indexing logic is refactored completely to be more efficient (& will remain same in future releases).
2. Android version is not being released yet, as I don't feel confident about it yet & needs a lot of features/accessibility-related improvements. This update was already very delayed & can't wait anymore. In future update, I will release Android along with patches to issues that are reported for Linux or Windows.

A new release with minor new features, tweaks & fixes. Now that we have built a solid & stable ground to add features on-top of, expect next release to be bigger.

• Feat: Linux application is now single instance (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Now application handles following separators in artist tag (as opposed to just /) (@alexmercerind):
  • ;, \, \\, // & /.
• Feat: "Stats" section in Settings (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: "Show in file manager" option in track menu for Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Improve tooltip style on desktop (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Improve ArtistScreen animation on mobile (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Update default album art (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Ability to disable minimal scaffold background artwork (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: No longer limiting the size of libmpv demuxer cache on Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improve app persistence & state saving (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improve libmpv specific API calls (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Currently playing track's metadata & artwork being scrambled when shuffling was enabled on Android (@alexmercerind).
• Translations: Update French (@ejacquemoud).

No ground-breaking fixes or features, just a few performance improvements, minor fixes & other tweaks to make the day better.

• Perf: No longer parsing & indexing music files under 1 MB (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improved playlist event handling & get rid of redundant UI redraws (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Dynamic now-playing-bar coloring improvements (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Certain tracks missing artworks on Android (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Color of refresh button & navigation bar text when "Dynamic now-playing-bar coloring" is enabled on mobile (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: No longer clamp playlist index overflow/underflow but avoid event (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Color of context menu button on WebTrackTile (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Safer cache management & file-write transactions (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Shuffling on Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Improve Android animations & PlaylistScreen indexing bug (@alexmercerind).
• Style: Few UI tweaks to put everything together nicely (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Now currently playing track's name is shown on window title & taskbar tooltip on Windows (@alexmercerind).
• Translations:
  • Japanense is now completely translated (@yulog).
  • Added Indonesian translation (@KesiTakeshi).
  • Portuguese is now completely translated (@maisondasilva).

Thanks ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ♡

EDIT: Re-releasing same tag v0.2.3 after addressing a pesky bug.

• Fix: Addressed randomly occurring issue that made adding new folders to library impossible (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Improved YouTube Music experience. Now you can (@alexmercerind):
  • Learn more about improved YouTube Music support here.
  • Search & browse artists.
  • Search & browse playlists.
  • Search & browse albums.
  • Search & browse songs.
  • Infinite paginated recommendations.
  • Ability to save playlists locally.
• Feat: Added "History" playlist (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Android support & mobile friendly UI written from ground-up. Key features involve (@alexmercerind):
  • Same consistent Material Design animations & UI.
  • Floating Search Bars & improvised search experience.
  • Improvised bottom navigation bar experience.
  • Good ol' time-synced lyrics in notification.
  • Handling of intents from file explorer etc.
  • Scroll sensitive "Now Playing Bar".
• Feat: Auto-coloring now-playing-bar (optional) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: .rpm packaging for Linux (@prateekmedia).
• Feat: Ability to play any web media URL & fetch its metadata (@alexmercerind).
• Feat: Optional proxy to browse YouTube Music (@mytja).
• Style: Improvise TextFields to follow Material Design (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improved file explorer integration on Windows & Linux (@alexmercerind).
• Translation updates:
  • Russian: @Feelogil, @raitonoberu.
  • Portuguese: @maisondasilva.

• Fix: Unable to open music files from some linux file browsers e.g. elementaryOS Files (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Broken MPRIS controls on linux in last release (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Windows version of Harmonoid now runs in single instance (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Windows installer icon (@YehudaKremer).
• Fix: Increase demuxer cache & fix stutter (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Slight jank when opening artist/album/playlist pages (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Broken album art in Windows' System Media Transport Controls (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Now album arts are extracted for each music file regardless of album (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: artists' albums not getting populated when auto refresh is disabled (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Disable auto-refresh by default & make it optional as "Experimental" (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Sometimes unable to remove tracks from playlists (@alexmercerind).
• Translation: Updated Portuguese (@maisondasilva).

Just last batch of bug-fixes for now.

Download links are below.

As we are moving forward to improve the overall stability of the app, we've decided to release yet another hot-fix to address many crucial bugs, performance hits & other file-system/indexing related issues.

• Feat: Now various app settings like volume, rate, shuffle, playlist etc. are not lost after restarting app (@YehudaKremer).
• Fix: Handle long file-paths on Windows (#214) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Handle network drives correctly (#224) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Incorrect album artist in .FLAC (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Corrupt files cause indexing performance to drop massively (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: YouTube response validation (@YehudaKremer).
• Fix: play/pause related bug (@YehudaKremer).
• Perf: Improve music collection refresh & adding/removing directory performance (@alexmercerind).
• Perf: Improve app transitions & animations (@YehudaKremer).
• Add Persian translation (@0xj0hn).
• Update Portuguese translation (@maisondasilva).

After this, we will get a good chance & time to play with interesting features & improving online (only YouTube Music currently) music playback.

Thanks. Join Discord for feedback & updates.

Download links are below.

• New! Added new artist-album screen for browsing music (@alexmercerind).
• New! Linux support is back with libmpv for music playback & parsing (@alexmercerind).
• New! Linux: D-Bus MPRIS controls (@alexmercerind).
• New! Linux: Switch to Inter font family (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: AlbumScreen & ArtistScreen now show album arts in perfect square shaped (@alexmercerind).
• Massive improvements to scroll performance (@alexmercerind).
• Added ability to configure following parameters (@alexmercerind):
  • Show track progress on taskbar icon.
  • Automatically add other songs from collection after album completion.
  • Automatically jump to NowPlayingScreen after playing a track.
• Accessibility: Fix NowPlayingScreen's coming up list to be more user friendly (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Scrollbar not working in NowPlayingScreen.
• Windows: Fix window could be dragged from caption buttons (@raitonoberu).
• Windows: Fix delay when pressing any of Windows caption buttons (@raitonoberu).
• Windows: Add Harmonoid to context menus with "Add to Harmonoid's Playlist" entry (@alexmercerind).
• Windows: Stripped installation size by ~10MB.
• Windows: Installer now deletes .Harmonoid folder after uninstall (@raitonoberu).
• Linux: Add minimum size for the window (@alexmercerind).
• Linux: Added new RPM package (@prateekmedia).
• Fix: Randomly flickering tracks in AlbumScreen (thanks to @sleepdaemon for report) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Windows 7, 8, 8.1 crashes (@mytja).
• Fix: Windows left & right borders on Windows 10 or older (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Now scrolling over volume/rate slider can control the value (@alexmercerind).
• YouTube: Fix YouTubeApi.getTrack (@mytja).
• YouTube: Fetch more recommendations to fill the screen (@alexmercerind).
• YouTube: Fix blurry album arts (thanks to @sleepdaemon for report) (@alexmercerind).
• YouTube: Fix links not being picked correctly from the search field (@alexmercerind).
• We no longer distribute application under GPL-3.0 but End-User License Agreement for Harmonoid.
• Big thanks to @Poopooracoocoo for bug-reports.
• Added Turkish translation (@TuranBerlin).
• Updated Portuguese translation (@maisondasilva).
• Added Russian translation (@raitonoberu).
• Fix: "Add to now playing" pauses music on Linux (#121) (@alexmercerind).
• Fix: Arabic language rendering on Linux (#122) (@alexmercerind).

You may join our Discord server for feedback & support.

Download link is below.

• New! Material re-designed UI. Now very strictly following material.io guidelines (@alexmercerind).
• New! Material designed iconography & icons for various UI elements.
• New! Better context menus for desktop (@alexmercerind).
• New! Improvised animations & user accessibility (@alexmercerind).
• New! More efficient tagging & indexing using libmpv (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Revamped search UI to improve experience (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Ability to add YouTube tracks to local playlist or play both local & YouTube music together (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Ability to sort music based on year (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Ability to order local music ascending or descending (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Now YouTube recommendations are automatically added to "Now playing" like official client (@alexmercerind).
• Feature: Add "Show Album" option to track context menus (@alexmercerind).
• Performance: Greatly improve YouTube playback start time (same as web client) (@alexmercerind).
• Windows: Integration with ITaskbarList3 (@alexmercerind).
• Windows: Integration with SystemMediaTransportControls (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: Rewrite music player & indexer using libmpv (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: Add new Collection.getAlbumArt method to get ImageProvider for a Media item (@alexmercerind).
• Refactor: Rewrite models with improved null-safety (@alexmercerind).
• Translations: Updated Slovenian translation (@mytja).
• Translations: Add Japanese translation (@HiSubway).
• Translations: Add Mandarin translation (@stonega).
• Translations: Add Malagasy translation (@c3k4ah).

You may join our Discord server at https://discord.gg/2Rc3edFWd8.